Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Wednesday 14 July 2010

Personal Opinion

Does post-structuralism, in abandoning meta narrative  offer infinite possibility of interpretation (liberation) with one hand, and at the same time fall into the hands of power brokers as they can define the oppressed as having "victim mentality" while imposing a world view on them with their power of definition via media and culture and capital?  Where is the power of definition?  (Expressive Flow?, Focus?, Capital?, Norms?)

this reminds me of the discussion by Pirzig R - complicated

It's just what you like...
Where are values?
Shared mutual exploration of ending suffering ? Feeling good?
In terms of self definition, actively taking a perspective....
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